It was the deadliest car bombing in Lebanon since June 18, 1985, when an explosion in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli killed sixty people and wounded 110.

Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8: 05 a. m. ( IST ).

Around 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.

* January 18 – The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Ōmuta, Fukuoka, Japan kills 83.

* August 18 – The Vergarolla explosion in Croatia kills 70.

* March 18 – In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers.

* March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.

On May 18, 1918 a TNT explosion in a local chemical factory killed 200 people.

The flour dust explosion and ensuing fire resulted in the deaths of 18 workers and also destroyed five nearby buildings.

* On 18 March 1980, 48 people were killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket with a Tselina satellite, during a fueling operation.

On 18 June 1835 a gas explosion in one of the tunnels killed 102 miners.

Mayon Volcano with volcanic ash | ash explosion at dawn on December 18, 2009

" Now I am 18, I am an adult and I think by now I have the right to know exactly what events transpired surrounding the explosion which cost my father his life ", she wrote.

AV410 took off from Cúcuta between 13: 13 and 13: 17 from runway 33 bound for Cartagena, there was no further information fron HK-1716 until ground witnesses informed that they saw a Boeing 727 flying too low that it contacted some trees and then, at 13: 18: 01, struck the mountain face-to-face, the 727 broke in half and disintegrated upon the fuel's explosion, the remains were scattered at a ratio of 60m.

* March 6, 1970 – Greenwich Village townhouse explosion: Three members of the domestic terrorist group the Weathermen are killed when a nail bomb they were building accidentally explodes in the basement of a townhouse on 18 West 11th Street.

* July 18, 2007 – a steam pipe explosion kills one and wounds twenty others near the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 41st street in Manhattan.

* In issue 18 of Marvel Comics ' Supreme Power series, the main character Hyperion uses his indestructible body as an RKV, slamming himself into the far Northern Hemisphere with enough force to generate a one teraton explosion.

The manufacturing process was not fully understood and on 11 a. m. 14 July 1847 a serious explosion killed 21 people ( 18 staff ), only 10 of whose bodies could be identified.

However, between December 1946 and September 1947, most of the city's Italian residents opted to emigrate to Italy during the Istrian exodus: on 18 August 1946 it was the site of the Vergarola explosion and on 10 February 1947 an Italian woman named Maria Pasquinelli shot British general De Winton.

* August 4 – Off Korea, the explosion of an aircraft fuel tank causes a fire on the flight deck of the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier which kills nine and injures 30 men and destroys or damages 18 aircraft.

The greatest school disaster, the New London School explosion, occurred March 18, 1937, when at least 298 died in a natural gas explosion in New London, Texas.

The school explosion in Bath, Michigan on May 18, 1927 killed 38 students, three teachers, and three others after the mentally deranged school board treasurer wired dynamite under the school building, causing the explosion and killing himself.

* 1992 – In an explosion in Guadalajara, Mexico, 206 people are killed, nearly 500 injured and 15, 000 left homeless.

* 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1, 100 people and displaces over 20, 000 others.

just saw an explosion up ahead of us here ... about 16, 000 feet or something like that, it just went down into the water.

The number of scholarly publications on the problem of the Tunguska explosion since 1908 may be estimated at about 1, 000 ( mainly in Russian ).

Assuming that a TNT explosion releases 1, 000 small ( thermochemical ) calories per gram ( 4. 2 kJ / g ), one tonne of TNT is equivalent to 4. 2 gigajoules.

This is the nebula of a supernova explosion which is believed to have been visible from the Earth around 10, 000 years ago.

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

* April 29 – WWII: An explosion at a chemical factory in Tessenderlo, Belgium leaves 200 dead and 1, 000 injured.

The resulting fire ignites 200, 000 lb ( 90, 000 kg ) of gunpowder being stored there, causing a massive explosion which destroys 1 / 6 of the city and kills 3, 000 people.

Mushroom cloud from the atomic explosion over Nagasaki rising 60, 000 feet into the air on the morning of August 9, 1945.

In either case, the resulting supernova explosion expels much or all of the stellar material with velocities as much as 10 % the speed of light, that is, about 30, 000 km / s.

The outer ring provides evidence of another large explosion that occurred over 1, 000 years ago.

The outer ring provides evidence of another large explosion that occurred over 1, 000 years ago.

The resulting explosion produced a shock wave that was heard and felt for over 5 miles, and a fireball over 1, 000 feet in diameter.

On March 9, 1911, the town was destroyed by an explosion of five magazines of 280 tons of dynamite and 105, 000 kegs of black powder at the Dupont de Nemours Powder Company, rendering houses within five miles of the blast center mostly uninhabitable.

As the current of electrons surges across the gap, it raises the temperature of the spark channel to 60, 000 K. The intense heat in the spark channel causes the ionized gas to expand very quickly, like a small explosion.

In 1942 Kurchatov declared: " At breaking up of kernels in a kilogram of uranium, the energy released must be equal to the explosion of 20, 000 tons of trotyl.

The resulting fire ignited 90, 000 kg of gunpowder stored there, causing a massive explosion which destroyed one-sixth of the city and killed 3, 000 people.

In early 2007, scientists using the Spitzer discovered evidence that potentially indicates that the Pillars were destroyed by a nearby supernova explosion about 6, 000 years ago, but the light showing the new shape of the nebula will not reach Earth for another millennium.

By 1950, Reseda had over 16. 000 residents and in the early 59's, a population explosion took place, making Reseda one of the most popular and populated of all Valley communities.

Later the General Downing report on the incident suggested that the explosion contained the equivalent of 20, 000 to 30, 000 pounds of TNT.